Map Collection [Pusey Library]

Factsheet of archival materials concerning the Harvard University Institute of Geographical Exploration held by the Harvard Map Collection.

Ana Luiza Nicolae August 8, 2024 1 min read
Content Quantity of materials Description
Aerial photographs 2 boxes totaling 142 pictures, uncatalogued. Survey of Cape Cod, film #AC31-77-A-B-C. Serial numbers start with CC-#.
Series of articles about the transfer of maps from HUIGE to the Winsor Map Room in Widener Library, in 1957. Selected articles and typed-documents Articles relevant to the HUIGE include:
  1. A volume of The Harvard Librarian (issued from the Office of the Director of Harvard University Library Cambridge 38, Massachusetts): “The Map Collection”, Vol. 4 No.7, September 1965.
  2. A typed “Memorandum concerning the rearrangement of the maps in the Winsor Map Room, 1958”, by Mrs. Kirk Bryan.
  3. An article by David A. Cobb, “Maps and Scholars”, from April 1977.
  4. “The Harvard College Library Map Collection” by Mary M. Bryan.
  5. “A Program for the Harvard College Map Collection” by Andrew D. Osborn, October 24 1956.
  6. … most importantly, The Winsor Map Room annual reports (especially between 1955 and 1959).
  7. The Reports of the Map Collection of the Institute of Geographical Exploration for the years 1938, 1947, 1948 and 1949.
Personal papers of Cartographer Erwin Raisz Several folders, uncatalogued.